Project Engineer

Candidate Name Bharathi Raja Gopalan Mail Id ********@*****.***

Contact # +91-994******* Location Chennai

Total Experience 7 years

(Months)

Summary

As Program Analyst with around 7 years of experience in the areas of,

Software Development, & Team Management.

Resourceful and deft in all phases of the SDLC (comprising requirement

analysis, development, testing and troubleshooting), with strong

programming, software upgrade and application support skills across

technology platforms

Strong analytical and reasoning skills.

Domain Expertise

Domain Specific Area in Domain Experience

(Months)

Healthcare WellPoint - Claims Processing and 44

Payments

Purchasing Corporate Procurement process 38

Technical Expertise

Technology / Mainframes

Classification

Programming Languages COBOL, JCL,IMS/DC

Databases VSAM, IMS/DB

Tools Changeman, Endevor, File Manager, File-Aid

MVS/IMS, TSO/ISPF, Debugger, Xpeditor, Fault

Analyzer, ABEND-AID, IBM Utilities (DFSORT,

ICETOOL, Director).

Education

Degree Qualification College / University / Year of

Institution Passing

Bachelors BE - ECE RMK Engineering College 2006

Engagement Overview

Project Name WIPS (Worldwide Integrated Purchasing Start Aug 2010

System) Date

Client Ford Motor Company End Date Till Date

Project Chennai - India Team Size 8

Location

Project Description:

Ford Motor Company is one of the largest established companies over the

world in providing vehicles.

WIPS (Worldwide Integrated Purchasing System) is responsible for the

Purchasing of parts for the production or prototyping of vehicle. It holds

and deals with the information of the parts, suppliers, plant details. The

major purchasing is done through WIPS. It interacts with various systems,

providing and retrieving information for the complete cycle of production by

WERS, CMMS3, COIN, CCAPS, GSDB, and GPIRS. WIPS is used by most of the Ford

Buyers in North America and Europe.

The production purchasing involves in various functionalities are like

Part loading, Sourcing, Pricing, Tooling or Tool order, Recap &Purchase

Order.

Role / System Analyst

Responsibilities

Contribution:

Preparing estimates and handling projects till completion.

Participating in meetings with onsite teams to understand requirements and

discuss the solution.

Assisted the team members to prepare the estimates for individual

components.

Troubleshoot problems

Preparing Technical Specification Document, Interface Document, High Level

Design Document, Detailed Design Document.

Providing functional & technical support to the coding related problems.

Providing functional knowledge to team members.

Analysis and design of programs.

Reviewing components that are to be delivered to the client.

Interacting with the client and the onsite coordinator for issues and

queries in the project.

Involving in fixing production issues.

Acting as offshore SME.

Environment:

Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, Telon, File Manager, Librarian and

Debugger.

Project Name WC Claims - BOCOMP Start Oct 2009

Date

Client Liberty Mutual, USA End Date Jul 2010

Project Chennai - India Team Size 12

Location

Project Description:

This project is responsible for processing payments and issues the payments

to the insured and also takes care of the business production batch and

online activities. Also worked on the Adhoc requests and business related

queries.

Role / Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Contribution:

Suggesting coding enhancements for the performance tuning of several IMS

programs.

As a Primary support monitoring the daily IMS batch cycle to ensure the

smooth flow of the jobs and timely online uptime.

Environment:

COBOL, JCL, Changeman, Abend-AID, File-AID, File-AID/IMS, Xpeditor, Z/OS,

IMS DB and DB2

Project Name Well point SSB_SNR (State Sponsored Start Jan '08

Business-Senior) Date

Client WellPoint HealthCare Networks End Date Oct '09

Project Chennai - India Team Size 8

Location

Project Description:

This project gives insurance benefit to senior citizens (aged above 65).

This project involves the maintenance phase, Production Support and Adhoc

tasks. The project benefits to be realized from the implementation of the

Legislative Requirements. Acknowledgement of existing health care delivery

and outcome disparities and Improved access to care for senior citizens

Role / Sofware Developer

Responsibilities

Contribution:

Responsible for handling components solely.

Suggesting coding enhancements for the performance tuning of several IMS

programs.

Monitoring the daily IMS batch cycle to ensure the smooth flow of the jobs

and timely online uptime.

Helping team members as and when required and proactively suggesting ideas

to automate processes

Environment:

COBOL, JCL, Changeman, Abend-AID, File-AID, File-AID/IMS, Xpeditor, Z/OS,

IMS DB.

Project Name Well point CES- well point Health Care Start Dec '06

Networks Date

Client WellPoint HealthCare Networks End Date Jan '08

Project Chennai - India Team Size 12

Location

Project Description:

The claim handling process is automated through this process and routed to

the respective functional parties based on the functional requirement.

Role / Sofware Developer

Responsibilities

Contribution:

As a developer analyzing the business requirements received from onsite

POC and then preparing Impact analysis documents.

Preparation of Technical design document to specifically define the

impacted programs and the suggested changes.

Coding, Unit testing, preparation of UTP/ UTRs for software changes.

Environment:

COBOL, JCL, Changeman, Abend-AID, File-AID, File-AID/IMS, Xpeditor, Z/OS,

IMS DB

Employment History

Company Name Designation Start date End Date

CSC Senior Consultant July 2010 Till Date

Xchanging PLC Senior Software Oct 2009 Jul 2010

Engineer

UST Global Software Engineer Dec 2006 Oct 2009

Languages Known

English and Tamil

Bharathi Raja Gopalan

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